To charge almost as much or even
more than the hardback is a mistake.
There's no reason for an ebook to cost more than a paperback, much less
more than a hardback.
Not exact matches
Indeed, at press time, 14 of the year's 25 bestselling cookbooks were
hardbacks priced at $ 20 or higher that sold
more than 30,000 copies each, according to Nielsen BookScan.
on Amazon's Best Sellers list and has already sold
more than 300,000 copies in Amazon e-book,
hardback and audio CD form, according to The Associated Press.
More than 7 million hardback copies of the novel are in print, and it has by the publisher's count been translated into more than 40 langua
More than 7 million
hardback copies of the novel are in print, and it has by the publisher's count been translated into
more than 40 langua
more than 40 languages.
Bishop Michael Campbell's book is nicer to use and handle: it is only slightly
more expensive
than the Family Publications book, but is
hardback, and has a ribbon marker.
Regrettably, it's the movie version of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a book still thumping its chest on the
hardback best - seller list after
more than three years.
But, when Amazon recently claimed to sell 80 %
more digital books online
than hardback books, I decided to find out
more about the whole scene.
But I remember the days when we were told that
hardback cost
more than paperbacks to produce and that when the cost of paper went up, so did the cost of books.
Choose your trim size (you'll find
more options here
than at CreateSpace), interior color (black - and - white or color), paper, binding type (paperback or
hardback), cover finish or laminate type, and page count.
Ebooks released along with
hardbacks or trades are going to be
more expensive
than ebooks released along with mass market.
It turns out that e-books are not cannibalizing hardcover and trade paperback sales, as publishers» once feared, though mass market paperbacks — which are often published much later
than their
hardback counterparts, and sold mostly in
more traditional retail environments like drugstores — have been negatively impacted.
I mean seriously, if Joe Konrath can make
more selling his ebooks at $ 2.99
than he would get in royalties off a $ 24
HARDBACK, there's something seriously wrong with the money side of things in traditional publishing.
I found I read
more books on my iPad
than I'd been reading in
hardback or paperback.
Fiction reading... well, I do have some of those books (some
hardback some paperback) with the intent and hope that I would read
more but
more of them remain unread
than read sad to say... until now
Amazon is now selling
more eBooks
than they are paperbacks and
hardbacks - has that changed the way you work?
From
more book types and formatting options
than you can shake a stick at (
hardback, paperback, magazines, etc), authors can select their ideal number of books with the print - on - demand option, print in premium colour or in crisp black and white and access print markets across the world with Ingram Spark's partnerships.
At this point, I feel $ 9.99 is
more than fair until the quality of the ebook product is comparable to the
hardback version of the book.
Harris says, «The American rights went through the roof,
hardback about half a million, I think, and paperback
more than a million.
But I won't pay
more for an ebook
than for a
hardback, and I won't buy
hardbacks anymore.
For many of us the right size is
more important
than pocket portability.Many buy
hardbacks because they are larger
than most paperbacks and provide a
more premium reading experience.
In the UK last year,
more digital books were published
than hardback editions, according to an article by Phillip Jones for The Bookseller.
But Amazon's new release
hardbacks are not that much
more than their previous ebook price — I routinely get them for $ 12 to $ 14, which is only a couple of bucks
more than the ebook.
According to an Amazon UK release, the company is now selling
more ebooks
than hardback or paperback books in Britain, a tipping point that we reached in the U.S. over a year ago.
Where other categories of fiction are pricing ebooks at trade paperback prices at best, or above
hardback prices at worst (who in Hel's Misty Halls do they justify charging
more for an ebook
than for a
hardback?)
This Christmas millions are being spent on persuading us to buy easy - to - read electronic devices like Kindle and iTab, and with
more digital books said to have been sold in the US this year
than hardbacks we can all see that a publishing revolution is on us.
So I was dismayed and disappointed when I discovered its publisher (Viking, a part of Penguin Group) has used the potentially unlawful agency model of eBook pricing to force Amazon to sell the Kindle version of the book for $ 9
more than what it charges for the
hardback version.
Ebooks are increasingly maintream, with Amazon now selling
more ebooks
than hardbacks.
Amazon UK now sells
more ebooks
than paperback and
hardback print editions combined.
According to the BBC,
more than 500 books in all formats, amongst them 200
hardbacks, are being published today, including a good helping of comedians» autobiographies, and of course a Jamie Oliver cookbook, Jamie's Great Britain.
The news comes hot on the heals of Amazon announcing that it now sells
more Kindle ebooks
than hardback books via its US Kindle store.
And at just a bit over half a pound, it's about the weight of a paperback, and much
more portable
than a
hardback.
Which means if I drop it in the bath, I'm out no
more money
than a couple of drenched
hardbacks.
If this means buying a book on my Kindle is no longer *
more expensive *
than buying the same book in
hardback, it sounds pretty good.
At the Digital Book World conference in January 2017, Nielsen presented 2016 data from
more than 30 traditional US publishers showing a fall in eBook sales from 2015 to 2016 and
hardback unit sales overtaking eBooks for the first time since 2012.
I've had several incarnations of kindles, the latest being a paper - white (which I absolutely love), and I have purchased
more e-books in the past 5 years
than all the
hardbacks and paperbacks combined in the 33 years prior.